Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 19:43:00 +1000 From: chris/reman <z2172268@student.unsw.edu.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>, Rodrigo Ormonde <ormonde@aker.com.br>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembler with FreeBSD Message-ID: <35F107A4.F617A64E@student.unsw.edu.au> References: <199809031340.NAA01183@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > You don't really want to use gas, because it was never made for human > > > use, just as a back end for gcc, and it's reactions to errors stink. > > > > No way! GAS fixed the arse-about-face assembler that intel created!! > > They made the assembler language user-drool-friendly! > > The syntax is fine. It's error handling, however, sucks. I think the AT&T syntax used in gas really sux, considering that most x86 assemblers (MASM, TASM, A86, NASM) all use standard Intel syntax I don't see why I should bother trying to learn a new way of expressing an already hard to use language, it's like someone decided to release a version of gcc with a ; at the start of statements, and the logic was x + y = z, just because thats how we normally write it andn not the arse-around way that ansi c uses. just my $0.02 regards, chris -- Christopher Day E-Mail the_reman@hotmail.com Homepage http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/1218 when the rain/when the children reign/keep your conscience in the dark melt the statues in the park - Fall On Me, REM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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